Beirut

Hail Sultana: On Drag as Art, Performance, and Expression
Life can be both glamorous and humorous for us all, and like a well-kept secret…

Lebanon: “I Want to Go Home”
Some 30 Kenyans sleep outside the Kenyan consulate demanding to go home. As Lebanon is…

A Year since the Beirut Port Crime: Who Cares?
It has been a year since the Beirut port explosion ripped through the city. While…

As a Mother, I Wish I Could Silence the Sea
I never wrote anything about the Aug. 4 explosion in my mother tongue. Because I…

Dear Lebanon: Nando’s Is Not The House it Once Was
A heartfelt eyewitness account of August 4, 2020. Wissam was with his friends in Karantina…

Lebanon: Hezbollah Represents an very Advanced Model of Internationalization
With its call for “internationalization,” the Maronite patriarchate has played a card as old as…

Shock and Aftershock: a Psychologist’s Vista on Beirut 2020
When patients ask: “How are you”? I wonder: how much mirror do I give, and…

Beirut Blast: The Number of Missing Still has not Reached Zero
“I want to know where my son is. Until now I don’t have any information…

Who Killed Elias Khoury?
Elias Khoury has become the symbol of our failure to convince his generation – our…

Zainab’s Parents Fear The Political influence Protecting Their Daughter’s Murderers
“Those who killed my daughter are politically supported. I don’t belong to any political party,…